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Supervisors press DPH as housing conservatorship paperwork cleared but no cases filed
Summary
San Francisco officials pressed the Department of Public Health on why the city has not yet used the narrow housing conservatorship allowed under 'SB 10 45.' DPH said court pleadings were finalized last week and notices to people who hit five 5150 holds have begun; supervisors pressed for bed counts and timelines for filing petitions.
San Francisco supervisors pressed city health officials on the city's stalled rollout of the housing conservatorship authorized in the state statute identified in the transcript as "SB 10 45," after Department of Public Health leaders said the court paperwork needed to file petitions was only finalized last week.
"More than a year after this hard fought battle to locally expand conservatorships was won, I am perplexed, very, very, very perplexed, that not a single person in San Francisco has been conserved under this new law," Supervisor Rafael Mandelmann said at the Committee's June hearing on the Housing Conservatorship Preliminary Evaluation Report. Mandelmann, who chairs the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee, requested the update to understand implementation barriers.
The department's lead presenter, Angelica Almeida, director of Forensic and Justice-Involved Behavioral Health Services at the Department of Public Health, summarized months of cross-agency work and said the key obstacle was completing…
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